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Premier Poincaré of France received the news of Germany's decision to give up the Ruhr fight with great satisfaction, but he awaited more definite orders from Berlin before placing any reliance in the word of the Government. Work must be continued in the Ruhr before France will consent to a conference with Germany. Unbiased opinion regarded the French occupation as a mistake on the ground that the move lacked economic wisdom. There was never any question of France being morally justified in coercing Germany. At all events Premier Poincaré, in the face of virulent opposition...
...political institutions and caused great suffering among the people. The cost to France has also been great. Millions of francs have been expended, lives lost. The gain in coal, etc., has been out of all proportion to the cost or to what France might have got out of the Ruhr by pursuing different tactics...
Future events will show that Germany has not surrendered unconditionally to the French. The Stresemann Government is known to have a secret agreement with France, Belgium and Britain guaranteeing to her complete sovereignty in the Ruhr and Rhineland. If for any reason the Allies forsake this agreement, the German Government will still hold the master card. They can throw open the doors of government to Monarchists and Communists and let the Allies do what they like. Such a situation both the Allied and German Governments are extremely anxious to avoid, and this is the greatest guarantee for rehabilitation of Europe...
...German Government has long warned the French that if they continued to occupy the Ruhr the Reich would become a prey to Bolshevism. The French Government always looked upon such an eventuality as a bugaboo. The German Government also said that they could not halt passive resistance, because public opinion was too strong. The French said: "Stop resisting before talking." The German Government ordered passive resistance to stop and in the place of Bolshevism there have arisen two dictators, one for Bavaria and the other for the Reich...
...Knilling unwillingly agreed to back the Federal Government but protested that the cessation of passive resistance should be a question for the Reich to settle and not a subject of discussion with the French and Belgians. In the meantime the Hitler Guards openly condemned German capitulation in the Ruhr and their leader, Adolph Hitler, ordered "grand maneuvers." Dr. von Knilling seemed unable or unwilling to curb the temper of the Hitlerites, whose audacity knew no bounds. The Government Party became alarmed and the Ministerial Council elected Dr. von Kahr as Dictator...